Users Guide

Boot Device Description

BIOS Boot

Manager

Boot using the BIOS boot manager.

Lifecycle

Controller

Boot using the Lifecycle controller.

Local Floppy Boot from a oppy disk in the local oppy disk drive.

Setting rst boot device for multiple servers using CMC web

interface

NOTE: To set the rst boot device for servers, you must have the Server Administrator privileges or Chassis Conguration

Administrator privileges, and the iDRAC login privileges.

To set the rst boot device for multiple servers:

1 In the left pane, click Server Overview > Setup > First Boot Device. A list of servers is displayed.

2 In the First Boot Device column, from the drop-down menu corresponding to a server, select the boot device you want to use for a

server.

3 If you want the server to boot from the selected device every time it boots, clear the Boot Once option for the server. If you want the

server to boot from the selected device only on the next boot cycle, select the

Boot Once option for the server.

4 Click Apply to save the settings.

Setting rst boot device for individual server using CMC web

interface

NOTE

: To set the rst boot device for servers, you must have Server Administrator privileges or Chassis Conguration

Administrator privileges and iDRAC login privileges.

To set the rst boot device for individual servers:

1 In the left pane, click Server Overview, and then click the server for which you want to set the rst boot device.

2 Go to Setup > First Boot Device. The First Boot Device page is displayed.

3 From the First Boot Device drop-down menu, select the boot device you want to use for each server.

4 If you want the server to boot from the selected device every time it boots, clear the Boot Once option for the server. If you want the

server to boot from the selected device only on the next boot cycle, select the Boot Once option for the server

5 Click Apply to save the settings.

Setting rst boot device using RACADM

To set the rst boot device, use the cfgServerFirstBootDevice object.

To enable boot once for a device, use the cfgServerBootOnce object.

For more information about these objects, see the Chassis Management Controller for PowerEdge FX2s RACADM Command Line

Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.

Conguring servers